Robert Ames — One of Our Best Young Comedians (1926) 🇺🇸

If he hadn’t come to California to play in a stage engagement, Robert Ames would probably have continued blithely on his way to success on the stage.

But when he appeared at the Playhouse in Los Angeles in Kelly’s Vacation and The Dark Angel, that changed the course of his life entirely, and now he is being groomed as a new virtuoso of light comedy on the screen.

There is no question about the efficiency and thoroughness of Ames’ training in acting. He has done everything from near tragedy to the lightest sort of musical productions — and chiefly leads and juvenile leads.

When De Mille [Cecil B. DeMille] first saw him, he recognized him immediately as a personality of the type for which the majority of fans are inclined to sigh — a young and good-looking American, with a manly air, a clean-cut presence, and a sense of humor. He is not billing him as a second Wallace Reid, because De Mille is too shrewd for that sort of thing. But it is easy to tell that Ames is expected to slip quite naturally into that general category.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, October 1926